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Sir Godfrey Kneller(Lübeck 1646-1723 London)Portrait of Sir Philip Honywood, three-quarter-length, in a breastplate and red coat, before a landscape, a cavalry skirmish in the distance
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Lisa Greaves
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Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646-1723 London)
signed and bears date 'GKneller. f/1718' (lower right, GK in ligature) and bears inscription 'Sr. Philp. Honywood Knt. of ye Bath,/ 4th. child of Lodowick Charles/ Honywood Esq 1st Genll: of/Horse. Coll* of Dragoons and/ Govr: of Portsmouth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
124.4 x 102.3cm (49 x 40 1/4in).
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Provenance
Honywood Family, Marks Hall, Essex
Their sale, Humbert, Son & Flint, Marks Hall, 8-11 December 1897, lot 104
Private Collection, UK
Philip (circa 1677-1752) was the second son of Charles Ludovic Honywood of Charing, Kent and his wife, Mary Clement. He enjoyed a successful military career, firstly serving under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, then later appointed colonel of His Majesty's First Regiment of Dragoons in 1732, and in 1743 made Colonel of the King's Regiment of Horse. Later that year he was awarded the Order of the Bath and died, without issue, in 1752 at Portsmouth, where he was Governor.
An equestrian portrait of the sitter, by Bartholomew Dandridge, dated 1751, is known through a mezzotint by James Macardell (see NPG D35950).
